Mary Catherine Wilck-Pond
Associate Director

Mary Catherine is a senior consultant at Oyster Consulting. Oyster Consulting offers top quality compliance, risk, operations, finance and technology consulting to broker/dealers and investment advisers.

Mary Catherine has detailed knowledge of traditional firm business, independent rep, bank brokerage and clearing. She brings over 25 years of operations experience beginning in 1981 at Wheat, First Securities when the firm had 50 offices and 500 brokers in the Mid-Atlantic region. The firm evolved into Wells Fargo Advisors, one of the largest in the country. Mary Catherine held leadership roles in that growing organization in Credit/Margin, Securities Processing, Dividends, Reorg, ACATs, Cash Management, New Accounts and Cost Basis. Mary Catherine has managed over 150 associates at any given time, and has significant experience integrating firms as the result of mergers and changes in clearing firms. She has overseen the implementation of new processes, technology and off shoring efforts. Prior to joining Oyster, Mary Catherine was responsible for reviewing operational controls and business continuity planning.

Mary Catherine is a graduate of Longwood College with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.